Bug#458895: maven2: commons-cli.jar is the culprit

[Paul Cager]

Mike Paul wrote:
> Package: maven2
> Version: 2.0.8-3
> Followup-For: Bug #458895

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>It turns out that /usr/share/maven2/lib/commons-cli.jar is
> the one that makes the difference:  if I copy that jar into a
> freshly-unpacked copy of Apache's Maven distribution, the problem
> occurs there too.

Thanks for investigating this so thoroughly, and sorry I have not had
more time to look at it myself.

It's a bit odd. At first I thought it must be a bug in the Debian
packaging of commons-cli, but I downloaded the official Apache jar from
http://mirrors.dedipower.com/ftp.apache.org/commons/cli/binaries/commons-cli-1.1.tar.gz
and that exhibits the same failure. If you download the jar from Maven's
repo
(http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-cli/commons-cli/1.0/commons-cli-1.0.jar)
then it all works.

It would seem that this behaviour relies on Maven using an old version
of commons-cli. I'll investigate further.

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